Northumbrian Water

Winner of the Queen’s
Award for Enterprise

in the category of
sustainable development

We are proud to provide a sustainable, affordable, clean and safe water supply and to manage and treat the waste water returned to us in a way that protects the environment.

Final Water Resources Management Plan 2010-2035

Essex & Suffolk Water has a statutory duty to prepare and maintain a Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP) under the Water Resources Management Plan Regulations 2007 and Water Resources Management Plan Direction 2007. Under these recent provisions of the Water Industry Act 1991, water companies are required to produce a draft WRMP for consultation with the public and specified statutory consultees. The plan effectively forms part of the water industry’s five year periodic review of price limits.

The WRMP shows how we intend to maintain the balance between supply and demand over the next 25 years. A series of tables support the plan and provide our forecasts of demand, supply and other parameters over this period.  A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the Plan has also been undertaken.

The consultation period for both the Plan and its accompanying SEA closed on 25 July 2008. Following consultation responses received on these documents we have produced a 'Statement of Response to Consultation' as required under the Regulations.  This statement details the considerations we have given to the comments made and the changes we have made to our WRMP and SEA as a result.

The Statement of Response and the original consultation drafts of the WRMP and SEA are available to download via the following attachments:

Title PDF
ESW Water Resources Management Plan - Annual update 2011
ESW Final Water Resources Management Plan 2010-2035 
Additional Information Supporting the Full Abberton Scheme - June 2010  (3.21MB)
ESW Supplementary Report to the Statement of Response
ESW Statement of Response to Consultation
Water Resources Planning Tables - Essex - Jan 2010
Water Resources Planning Tables - Suffolk Northern Central - Jan 2010
Water Resources Planning Tables - Suffolk Blyth - Jan 2010
Water Resources Planning Tables - Suffolk Hartismere - Jan 2010
Essex Outage Report - Nov 2008
Intermediate Framework Assessment Report - Feb 2009
Essex System Water Resource Modelling and DO Calculation
River Waveney Water Resource Modelling and DO Calculation 
Suffolk Outage Report - Nov 2008
SEA Report  (4.09MB)
SEA Non-Technical Summary